Paper 1 - Sexuality Identity

Question 1

Stonewall

Answer 1

National monument, started as gay bar
1st parade a year after policy raid
homosexuality - mental illness, felony unemployed

Question 2

McIntosh - homosexuality role

Answer 2

gay men, camp behaviour
emotional and feminine

Question 3

Kinsey Report

Answer 3

homosexual encounters more common than thought
37% of men had homosexual encounter, less than 4% were exclusively homosexual

Question 4

Reiss’s 1961 study - ‘rent boys’

Answer 4

young male prostitutes ‘rent boys’ regarded themselves hetero
despised the men to neutralise behaviour
gave up practises to becomes husbands and fathers

Question 5

Pink Pound - guardian newspaper

Answer 5

purchasing power of LGBT community, especially gay males (double income, no kids) worth £6 mill per year in UK

Question 6

Negative media - Batchelor (media representation)

Answer 6

being gay not generally represented in mainstream media
when in tv, represented mainly as source of anxiety or embarrassment, target to bullying
lesbianism invisible in young peoples media

Question 7

Negative media - Gerbner/Tuchman (symbolic annihilation)

Answer 7

Gerbner - media participate in symbolic annihilation, media overwhelmingly hetero in characters.
Tuchman - symbolic annihilation - when mass media condemn certain groups that aren’t socially valued.

Question 8

Negative media - Craig (4 media characteristic)

Answer 8

-Campness- reinforces negative views of homosexuality
-Macho - exaggerates on gay man to threaten tradition masculinity
-Deviant - evil/ sexual predator portrayed as morally wrong
-Responsible for AIDS - moral panic

Question 9

Positive media - Gauntlet (tolerance)

Answer 9

still underrepresented but tolerance of sexual diversity slowly growing in society
audience becoming more comfortable because of diverse images of it represented in media/tv

Question 10

Trans identity - Quinn (same sex rs in tribes)

Answer 10

same-sex marriage between two men
one dress/act masc one dress/act fem
man- boy marriage - ‘boy-wife’ treated as female wife unti old enough to get their own boy-wife

Question 11

Compulsory Hetero - Rich

Answer 11

women oppressed by patriarchy and institutions such as marriage, SA and rape. women socialised and forced to be hetero ensures ‘availability’ to men. Lesbianism threatens male dominance and power over women

Question 12

FUNCTIONALIST

Answer 12

nuclear family most desirable family structure

Question 13

POST MODERNISM

Answer 13

Polhemus - pick n mix

Question 14

Society - Weeks

Answer 14

don’t have to come out as straight
heteronormative society